The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
CORONARY INTERVENTIONS
Angiographic and clinical comparisons of intravascular ultrasound- versus angiography-guided drug-eluting stent implantation for patients with chronic total occlusion lesions: two-year results from a randomised AIR-CTO study
1. Department of Cardiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China; 2. Department of Cardiology, Nanjing Heart Centre, Nanjing, China; 3. Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Aims: This study sought to compare angiographic endpoints at one-year follow-up after a drug-eluting stent implantation guided by either intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) or angiography in